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Hopperesque

Saturday, 6 June 2026

Children in the Shadows #2

A Walk Among the Tombstones

The Window

Gloria

Gun Crazy

This Man Must Die

Fallen Idol

Naked Kiss

Panic Room

Oliver Twist (1948)

Sopranos

Night of the Hunter

Taxi Driver

Mildred Pierce

Once Upon a Time in America

The Silence (1963)

All the Devils



        My New Year's Eve toast ; to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which i do battle - may they never give me peace.

Patricia Highsmith
New Years Eve 1947

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Highsmith
Photographer unknown

Friday, 5 June 2026

Downpour of Shadows #34

Sopranos

In Cold Blood

End of the Affair

Rififi

Postman Always Rings Twice

La Bete Humaine

Deep Cover

Out of the Past

Last Wave

Big Sleep

After Hours

La Notte

Last Seduction

The Housemaid (1960)

Identity (2003)

Dragonwyck

In the Electric Mist

I Live


        I'm not sore at anybody. I live. I eat. Sometimes i sleep. Come around and see me sometime.

Raymond Chandler
Playback
1958

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Thursday, 4 June 2026

Pierre Montazel

La Dama Del Alba

Ossessione

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Razzia Sur La Chnouf

Gas-Oil (Hi-Jack Highway)

Can't Sleep



I can't drink, i can't eat, i can't think, i can't sleep
So lets have a song, lets have it loud
The louder the better to drown out the crowd
O' here is my order
Waiter just make mine blues

Waiter Make Mine Blues
(Biondi/O'Day)
Anita O'Day

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unknown

Wednesday, 3 June 2026

Left of the Day



        "I never saw her in the daytime. We seemed to live by night. What was left of the day went away like a pack of cigarettes you smoked. I didn't know where she lived. I never followed her".

Jeff Bailey
Out of the Past
1947

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Patrick Connelly linocut

Yet It Stays



                                   As it comes with a voice and a face
                                   And you make a talk of it
                                   Talking to yourself a talk worth keeping
                                   And you put it away for a keen keeping
                                   And you find it to be a hoarding
                                   And you give it away and yet it stays hoarded

from
Love is a Deep and a Dark and a Lonely
Carl Sandburg
1963

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Corinne Calvet

Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Coming Off Shift #11

Body Heat

Ossesione

The Vanishing (1993)

Terminal (2018)

Brighton Rock

Duel

Larceny

Hell or High Water

Des Gens Sans Importance

Postman Always Rings Twice

Vicki

Last Stop Yuma

Last Picture Show

End of Violence